This is the story of the single greatest political grievance in modern Welsh history, the one that ran deeper and lasted longer than almost any other. It is a story with riots and troops in it, with a great mocking poem, with a bill that took eight years and a constitutional revolution to pass, and with a victory that arrived, with terrible timing, in the very week the world went to war.

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On a warm Saturday afternoon in August 1911, in a tinplate town in Carmarthenshire, a nervous magistrate mumbled the words of the Riot Act to a crowd that could barely hear him, a major of the Worcestershire Regiment gave an order, and soldiers of the British Army fired live rounds into the back gardens of an ordinary Welsh street.

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With the arrival of the Romans comes the establishment of a new trade centre and importantly the flood of the symbols of their version of civilization changing the makeup of south eastern Britain.

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